{"id":877,"date":"2026-03-04T06:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:25:02","slug":"ancient-laterite-rock-cut-chamber-unearthed-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/ancient-laterite-rock-cut-chamber-unearthed-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient laterite rock-cut chamber unearthed in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#199668\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Ancient laterite rock-cut chamber unearthed in Kerala<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>News<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A<strong>\u00a0laterite rock-cut chamber<\/strong>, believed to be<strong>\u00a0nearly 2,000\u00a0years old<\/strong>\u00a0and linked to the\u00a0<strong>Megalithic period<\/strong>, was unearthed recently in<strong>\u00a0Kasaragod district of Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"306\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1.png 306w, https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Megalithic communities constructed such chambers by interring pottery of varying shapes and sizes as\u00a0<strong>part of ritual belief systems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient laterite rock-cut chamber unearthed in Kerala News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-takeaways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}